Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for her question and I reject the assertion that she makes in it. The reality is, as she knows, that there is $18.6 billion of additional funding going into schools. It is rigorously needs based, and one of the elements of special needs is in fact disabilities, as she knows, and so students with disabilities will get more funding over the course of that period. So it is a very clear transparent needs based process.

The honourable member for Sydney has set out consistently to mislead and frighten parents with her remarks about this, and I want to draw the honourable member's attention to this. She says in one of her statements called the facts on school funding: 'As an outrage, Malcolm Turnbull wants to give private schools 80 per cent of their fair level of funding and public schools just 20 per cent.' The federal government has been the major funder of non-government schools for a very long time and a smaller but rapidly increasing funder of public schools. This is—

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